SILVIA INSELVINI. Il crepuscolo degli uomini / The crepuscule of men
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SILVIA INSELVINI
Il crepuscolo degli uomini / The crepuscule of men
Curated by Beatrice C. Benedetti & Florin Gherasim
Silvia Inselvini is an artist born in Brescia (Italia) in 1987. She graduated in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in SantaGiulia, Brescia, where she currently lives and works.
Among the latest events we find: the exhibition of the finalists of the VAF Prize at the Castello Estense in Ferrara (2023) and at the Stadtgalerie of Kiel (2021), the participation in the Tongyeong Triennale in South Korea (2022), “Anàstasi”, group exhibition at Galleria Giovanni Bonelli in Pietrasanta (2022), “The colour out of space”, solo exhibition at the Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister in Regensburg (2021), “Nights like Lights”, solo exhibition at the PoliArt Contemporary in Milan (2020); we point out the personal exhibitions at IAGA Contemporary Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2016 and in 2019; we remember the presence at the Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca (2018); and at the Marignana Arte, Venice (2018); in 2015 she participated in the Biennale Giovani Monza, where she won the Rottapharm Award Biotech. Among the other awards: Paratissima 2021 (Best NICE artist and BestTalent Prize awards), Arte Laguna Prize (finalist of the XV edition), ArteamCup 2019 and 2020, Prize Combat X and XIII edition, VAF Prize and San Fedele Visual Arts Award.
In addition to group and personal exhibitions, he has exhibited at several art fairs, including KIAF Seoul (2022), Affordable Art Fair Hamburg (2022), Affordable Art Fair Brussels (2023). Among the different curators and art critics who wrote about her research, we find: Beatrice C. Benedetti, Ilaria Bignotti, Leonardo Conti, Chiara Canali and Matteo Galbiati.
The exhibition project exhibited on this occasion is composed exclusively of works of the cycle Notturni (Nocturnes), on which the artist has been working for several years and which she herself defines as “[...]a prayer.” In these works, the artist covers her A4s with ballpoint pen ink, erasing any trace of white from the paper. This erasure, in successive layers, gives rise to a new iridescent-oily uniformity, at first only in blue or black, now also green and red.
An exhibition produced by the National Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca in collaboration with IAGA Contemporary Art
